Wave-like solutions for nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations: a toy model (Q2843422)

The authors consider the following toy-model equation NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \partial_{t}u(t,x)-\partial_{xx}u(t,x)= \begin{cases} Au(t,x), \quad 0\leq u(t,x)<\theta, \\ \vspace{2\jot} 1-u(t,x-a),\quad u(t,x)\geq\theta, \end{cases} NEWLINE\]NEWLINE with \(\theta \in (0,1)\), \(A,a >0\), and investigate various types of wave-like solutions, that is time-global solutions which can be written as \(u(t,x)=U(x-ct)\). As it is pointed out in the abstract of the paper, simple analytical travelling wave solutions are given with or without minimal speed which: can (i) connect monotonically \(0\) to \(1\), (ii) connect these two states non-monotonically, and (iii) connect \(0\) to a wave train around \(1\).